TV is funny for me. I have to have some sort of noise like a fan or rain sounds on DVD to go to sleep - silence keeps me awake, and my mind churns too.
TV sometimes keeps me awake. However, if there is an interesting show that I want to watch, and I lay down, I am almost guaranteed to doze off and miss most of it.
I go to sleep for about 3 hours, wake up and can't go back to sleep. Mom used to call this wide awakes. She had similar sleeping problem from middle age on.
—noise like a fan or rain sounds on DVD to go to sleep—
We both have mp3 players with music and preaching on them. My wife has a rainstorm on hers to use at bedtime to sleep. Or at least she did before becoming medicated for different problems.
We don’t have desert, we take our handful of meds instead!
I don’t notice any side effect from Trazodone. I read those last night and I don’t have any of those “maybe” side effects. I couldn’t sleep without it, anyway, so I’m taking it. Medicine acts quickly in me and it doesn’t take much to get the benefit from it. Pain doctor always started with the cheapest med at a low dose when determining what works with a person. He knew I had a fast metabolism so he always started with low dose of anything for me.
“I go to sleep for about 3 hours, wake up and can’t go back to sleep...”
With Trazodone, I sleep 6,7,8 continuous hours of deep sleep.